Sci-Tech

New York: US stock futures steadied, the dollar edged higher, and tech stocks in Asia slid Tuesday after a sell-off sparked by advances from a Chinese AI startup raised concerns over US dominance in one of the market’s hottest sectors. Chipmaker Nvidia suffered a historic...

New Delhi: The International Space Station (ISS) has captured images of Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 -- the world's largest religious and human gathering event -- from space, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said Monday. The images captured Sunday night showcase the mesmerising view of...

Cape Town: You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the...

New Delhi: US researchers have found a promising drug candidate that could potentially help repair vision in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological conditions. Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus showed that the drug, LL-341070, can boost the brain's ability...

New Delhi: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn will light up the night sky in a rare astronomical alignment known as a planetary parade Saturday night. This celestial phenomenon occurs when the planets align on the same side of the Sun, forming an expansive...

Bengaluru: ISRO will launch its 100th satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota January 29, the space agency said Friday. The agency is gearing up to launch the GSLV-F15 NVS-02 mission. GSLV-F15 with Indigenous Cryogenic stage will place the NVS-02 satellite into a...

Rourkela: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, have developed an AI-based Multi-Class Vehicle Detection (MCVD) model and a Light Fusion Bi-Directional Feature Pyramid Network (LFBFPN) tool aimed at improving traffic management in developing countries. Led by Santos Kumar Das, Associate Professor in...

San Francisco: The xAI owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centres for OpenAI across the US. OpenAI said Tuesday that it would team up with SoftBank and Oracle to build...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Wednesday signed agreements with IIT Bhubaneswar, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) to address climate change, support sustainable livelihoods, and protect the state's biodiversity and coastal ecosystems. The Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department...

Mahakumbh Nagar (UP): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Wednesday released before and after satellite images of the tent city here giving an insight into the grandeur of the Maha Kumbh which is drawing crores of people from across the world to take a holy...